Year 5 English Home Learning Suggested Activities

Spelling

Online Spelling games

www.spellingframe.co.uk

Click - Year 5 and 6 Spelling rule 38

View the words, complete the spelling tiles game and the practice test.

You could even get a family member to test you on Friday.

Reading

Read the next chapter of Street Child – ‘Rosie and Judd’ (attached)

Imagine you were one of the children. Sketch a picture of what you think they might look like.

Reading Comprehension :

In addition to Read Theory, I have attached a reading comprehension activity based on the Anne Frank diaries.

Writing – Recount – Diary Entry

Task 1 Recognising the features of diaries.

This should be a really easy task for you to complete because we have done this type of writing lots of times before. Watch this video clip to remind you of the features of a diary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdfFL8UzR2U

After you have watched the clip, jot down all the features that you learnt.

Task 2: Feelings, thoughts and emotions

Jot down all of the feelings, thoughts and emotions your chosen character would feel in the kitchen with Rosie and their mother. This can just be a thought shower or bullet points.

Would they know what was happening?

How would Rosie look to a small child?

Would the smells of the kitchen remind the children of particular times?

Would the children be scared?

Think about:

Your senses it is always a good idea to use your senses to help you describe things really well.

Put yourself in their shoes; how would you feel?

REMEMBER a diary entry should include lots of feelings, thoughts and emotions.

Task 3: To write a diary entry showing viewpoint.

Remember to use informal language in your writing because it is a personal account of the events that took place. You can even add slang or add an accent to your character if you like. Use the success criteria below to guide how you structure your writing. You can email Miss Overton or I your finished work to owls@bowburnprimary.durham.sch.uk or ospreys@bowburnprimary.durham.sch.uk We can’t wait to read them.

Success Criteria:

Diary entry

Me

Partner

I have used varied sentence openers (fronted adverbials)

I have used varied punctuation correctly (!’?”:;-())

I have made my writing lively and interesting and thought about the reader.

I have used varied and interesting vocabulary throughout and used my senses to describe feelings, thoughts and emotions.

I have confidently used different types of sentence (compound, complex and simple).

I have used the first person (I, we, us)

I have confidently used alliteration, simile, metaphor and personification.

I have a clear structure to my diary which is easy to follow.

I think I have done all of them.

Please remember, these are suggested activities. You can complete all or some of these tasks and you should work at your own pace. The important thing is that you and your family stay healthy and happy.

Also, don’t forget to go onto Read Theory as the teachers are checking up on who is logging on.